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Welcome to the official blog on high school football for the 2013 season.
During the off-season let’s talk about players, recruiting news, teams and everything about high school football.
During the season each week let’s talk about match-ups and how teams did. Let us know what player(s) stood out each week.
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Wow moderator your really deleting my comments?? Kinda sensitive ya think? Must be a LaSalle fan lol. Bottom line as I said and you can delete it if you want but LaSalle brought their refs with them. And Coatesville put out LaSalle players with good clean hard hits. This here is Chester county football that’s what we do.
Philly DLine,
Agree 100% on the recruiting nation topic, they all do it. Let’s not just jump on Catholic and charters though. Washington was the big dog in the pub for a long time, and still right at the top. Most kids on that team don’t live in Somerton and Bustleton. Campbell went to Chestnut Hill, probably got some financial aid, but I’m pretty sure he’s at Cornell now, so I think academically that worked out very well for him. Matt Ryan, as with 90% of his family (cousins and all), went to and paid for Penn Charter. These recruits are not really an issue so much because they are not PIAA schools. I think the other guy you mentioned was Dez Peoples, along with education and preparation for the next level. Did stealing him from Prep improve his chances in either category? I’ve said it a hundred times, they all recruit. The only problem I have is with the coaches that recruit players that already are playing at other high schools. Knock yourself out and see every CYO, middle school, and pound ball game to get kids to your school. However, when you bring in a Junior that has mastered his craft by way of another school/coaching staff, don’t pat yourself on the back for great coaching. Your really not a great anything but thief.
Kmac, yes the system will be in place for all classes in D1. For example, North Penn loses to LaSalle who finishes 9-1. Then NP will have 90 points instead of zero from that game.
@KMc-
Don’t try to change the subject. The D1 AAAA final was at the same location on the same night. Friday night!! Admit it , you were wrong.
@KMc:
Did Coatesville have off that day?
That’s the lame-ist excuse I heard yet.
Be careful what you wish for. If LaSalle had beaten Coatesville then they would have played N. Allegheny in the final. They would have had their hands full, that’s all I’ll say.
Anyone?
The buzz last season was that District One was going to award the 10 bonus points for an opponents win this season (2013)REGARDLESS if a team won or lost the game. This was to reward teams for playing quality schedules non-league. Of course the loser still gets zip for the particular game, but can pickup points for their opponents wins. The D1 website still has the old wording that only wins get the bonus points. Does anyone know if the policy will be in place?
KMc, surely you’re not serious. D1 home site. They determine venue and day. Didn’t LaSalle play an East Final at P-W? That’s their home field.
KMc stop making excuses and man up hahahhahaha
@KMc-
Boo hoo! As they say on ESPN Gameday… “C’mon man”!! Injuries, long day at school, wrong venue, wrong day, etc Any more excuses.?? Clearly losing with dignity is not in your vocabulary. Win with class and lose with class. No excuses! It’s football.
@KMc,
I wish LaSalle would have won that game. We all agree that North Allegheny would have taken them behind the woodshed the way they did to Coatesville. People come up with the silliest excuses as to why they didn’t win a game. You lost fair and square. Ha, of course isn’t that what losers do, make excuses?
Was Coatesville better than LaSalle last year because they beat LaSalle in the eastern final? I don’t think Coatesville was better, but they still won the east. Was Malvern better than Coatesville last year? Absolutely not, but Malvern beat them. I really don’t think LaSalle was better than Prep last year, but they beat them in the CL championship game. Good teams are gonna beat other good teams, and would not beat them same teams next time, or maybe they would. It is what it is. Is Coatesville gonna walk through all of these small college teams right to Hershey this year? I doubt it, but that’s a conversation to start around week 5. Games start in 24 days, should get an idea of who’s good, and who’s not, after they line up a few times.
It’s undoubtably a “recruiting nation.”
The top schools that are always in contention for state titles are private/Charter schools(LaSalle, Wood, Prep, Allentown CC, West Catholic) but there’s always a public school that has a talented class of returning players that goes deep in the playoffs. Now, I know Lasalle, Wood & Prep doesn’t recruit as heavily as they once did , but, they can thank the college like recruiting a decade or so ago that brought players from the area to start the “ball moving” for players to travel some distance to play for a program that can provide great education, winning attitude & preparation for the next level. Very similar to college programs. Now when there’s players like Rashad Campbell, Dez Peoples, Matt Ryan and so on that’s when you see the heavy recruiting. You mostly see this at the AAAA & AAA level but in the past few season we have seen AA & A participate in this college-like recruiting process. Due to recruiting, it forced public schools to jump on the bandwagon (will not mention coaches or programs that are always “tip-toeing” around state officials to get a player to move into their district).
There’s still some programs that have such tradition that kids still go to there hometown school. I think schools like Wyomissing is an example but hey, I’m a Philly guy so I have to show some love to the area with programs like North Penn, Pottsgrove, Strath Haven, Bristol, etc…..
My expectations are gonna be the same as last year
I expect either D1/D12 in the finals for AAAA/AAA with the possibility of seeing a D12 school in AA. Single-A watch out for Bristol, I do think they got a run in them but like last year it will most likely be stopped short of a Championship appearance
@KMc those kids make a choice to get up at 5:00 am to attend that school……… If the PIAA wanted a Pub School to win than the PCL would have never been admitted to the PIAA. Lasalle lost it happens. These arguments are why their are so many anti-PCL people. If the roles would have been reversed and Lasalle won but 2-3 Coatsville players would have been hurt and Coatsville fans would acting like SOME (not all) of the PCL fans are about this topic, all we would hear about is how everyone talks down to the mighty PCL, and they are jealous of us
It’s very true that most teams have injuries at that point of the season. What hurt LS in that game is that they lost 3 starters during that game. Coleman was their MVP. Tough to overcome. Still, I loved Coatesville’s team. They were fast! Reminded of the WC team from ’08 in that regard. LaSalle did a nice job of making a game of it. I don’t recall the “driving” rain. But it was mostly damp and there was some drizzle, mist throughout. Maybe, I just don’t recall. Coatesville won fair and square. Also, the glass slipper/Cinderella reference didn’t apply to them. They were legit!
Lets face it, PIAA wanted a public school to win that game. They couldn’t have made it more advantageous to Coatesville if they just handed them the trophy without playing the game. There’s no way that having the game held on a Friday night in one teams back yard versus having the other team have to put in a full day of school (in many cases that means getting up at 5:00 am to get a 6:00 am bus), put in a rigorous school day, and then bus them over an hour to a stadium to play a 7:00 pm game was not done so that the public school would win. If this was a fair game it would have been held on a Saturday at a place that was equal distance to both schools. LaSalle had already put in a 12-14 hour day before the game even began.
@ Buddy
It means that Coatsville’s glass slipper from 2012 will not fit in 2013…
@ Pub School
LaSalle was riddled with injuries going into that game not to mention LaSalle’s all everything Sean Coleman went down early in the game as well as one their top lineman in Tom Spiteri… Coatsville was very good last year… LaSalle had no answer for their speed… However LaSalle came back in a driving rain in the second half and were a dropped pass or two away from advancing to Hershey.
@steve-
Coatesville beat you. Had 3 TD’s called back. It coulda been 60-34. Live with it. They were the better team last year. Not a question. Every team has injuries that time of year. Grow a set and stop whining about last year. LS wasn’t good enough last year. The better team won. This year is this year. Let them play and decide this year. Good luck!
@ChiefRaider(aka..inverse Mensa)
Real beating?? They were dropped endzone passes away from the biggest collapse in PAHS football playoff history against an injury riddled squad.
Speaking of beatings, you boys thank Art Walker for the humane liberal 2nd half substitutions in that mercy killing title game?? They could have laid a hundred!!
Explorer for life:
What’s that have to do with this year???
A lot of kids never get a shot until senior year and have to make the best of it and do.
Chief Raider is delusional. Coatsville almost spit the bit in that Semi last year. LaSalle dropped a TD
Obviously the college coaches are evaluating Austin Seamon on his size and not his ability. I’ve watched this kid for years and he’s impressed me EVERY time.
PCL, I saw that. Supposedly the kid did well at some kind of QB camp. Did a little digging and it appears he’ll be a sophomore and is a transfer from Upper Dublin. Unfortunately, he may not get a shot until senior year if Shurmur is the real deal. But you can never have too many of them.
@chiefradar
Have you seen your team this year? Is the small college comment a safety net in case you don’t beating on that small college that recruits?